How a common person from the people of Tawheed defeated the scholar from grave worshippers by AbdurRahman.org

Aqeedah Tahaawiyyah : Lesson 07

وكل شيء إليه فقير‏

[24] And everything is totally dependent upon Him.

And for this reason one of the scholars from the grave-worshippers, he said to a common person from the people of Tawheed, “You people say that the awliyaa. (beloved servants of Allaah), they can’t benefit and they can’t bring harm.” So he said, “Yes, we say that they don’t bring benefit and they don’t bring harm.” So he (the grave-worshipper) said, “Does not Allaah, the Most High, say,

Do not consider those who are killed in Allaah’s cause as being dead. Rather, they are alive, with their Lord, being given provision.” (Soorah Aal-`Imraan (3), aayah 169)

So (this man who is only just a regular person) he responded to him and said, “Did Allaah say yurzaqoon (يُرْزَقون – they are given provision) or did He say yarzuqoon (يَرْزُقون – they give provision)?” So the man said, “Rather He said, yurzaqoon (يُرْزَقون – they are given provision) with a dammah on the yaa’” So (the man who is a common person), he said, “In that case I will ask the One who Provides for them and I will not ask them.” So that person of knowledge was defeated in argument by the evidence of this common person who was upon the correct natural disposition.

At-Ta`leeqaat Al-Mukhtasarah `alaa Matn Al-`Aqeedah At–Tahaawiyyah
By Shaykh Saalih ibn Fawzaan al-Fawzaan hafizahullaah
Translated by Aboo Talhah Daawood Burbank, rahimahullaah